Zoya Akhtar Quotes

Zoya Akhtar

Profession : Director

Birth : October 14, 1972

But if you can empathise with a character and if you can emotionally resonate with that character and understand their emotional journey, I think you are home.

Zoya Akhtar

I mean tomorrow if I want to make a film about a queen that lived in the 15th century, I can't be like I can't make it. I should be able to make it.

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It is a part of us, film-makers and audiences; what we can't say with dialogues, we say with a song. We tell stories through songs, look at our folk cultures.

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In 'Gully Boy', of course, Ranveer Singh's performance has largely decided what the songs will look and feel like.

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Even though 'Luck By Chance' is set in the film industry, the lead characters are people you know and see, but they are not your friends.

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I want to make a period film, I want to make a film set in another country. I want to make a foreign film. I want to make everything eventually. I am a storyteller. I have many stories to tell.

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It is nice to be out there, amongst contemporaries on a global scale. You meet different people, see different things, meet different producers, eventually grow to collaborate in different ways. The world is getting smaller. It's nice not to be insular.

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The whole class system has oppressed so many people and given them such lack of opportunity. They are fed such strong narratives that this is where you belong and this is where you are.

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When you colonise someone's dream, that's the worst thing you can do.

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Because you don't have opportunity to study, you don't have opportunity to further yourself. And you kind of tend to believe your lot that this is what you have been given. I think on some level we have colonised people, our own people.

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I think there is nothing more important in forming a human being than your family. It is how you have been brought up and been taken care of that eventually is how you will deal with and treat the world.

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I don't really know a normal family. In fact, I don't know a perfect person. So, how can a family be perfect and frankly if there are any, they will be very boring like I won't want them over for dinner.

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I love music, but can't hold a note in a bucket. I can't sing, can't play an instrument.

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I definitely want a partner and would like to spend the rest of my life with somebody, but I don't care if am married or not.

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I was an executive producer. I've done a lot of jobs and I think each one helps you get closer to what you want as a director. It also helps you - when you work with different filmmakers - to absorb, to adapt, to know what to watch out for, to know pitfalls.

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I'm a writer, so I like nuances.

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I've grown up in the film industry and I've been watching them, analyzing them, laughing at them, totally understanding them and getting their point of view, and, at times, taking up for them. So I'm part of it and it's part of me.

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At 19, while studying at St Xavier's College and majoring in literature and sociology, I got my first job as a copywriter. It was at a company called the Script Shop.

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So at 19, I faced my first blank page as a professional writer.

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Pieces of my life, no matter how scattered, are being stitched together and reflect in my work.

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